Rally Park, Leicester
Selected Wild Place / Other Wild Places / Public Rights of Way / VC55 boundary
The park has four entrances, the main entrances are off Tudor Road/King Richards Road or Fosse Road North with other access off Tudor Road opposite Vaughan Street and Bonchurch Street by the adventure playground.
Public park
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Rally Park is an open space of about 3.75 hectares and is close to both the Old River Soar and the Leicester Branch of the Grand Union Canal. Its shape is still defined by the former railway line and sidings.
The Park was created on land used for the terminus of the Swannington to Leicester Railway, which is one of the first railway lines in the world to be constructed and which opened in 1832. West Bridge Station to the south of the park has recently been restored. The former line follows a route along what is now the tree-lined Queen Elizabeth Jubilee Walk and onto Stokeswood Park.
The park is popular with nearby residents and local commuters and forms an important haven for wildlife so close to the city centre. Hedgerows and scrubby areas provide important nesting and roosting sites for birds and insects abound on flowering ivy, bramble and gorse. These relic industrial sites are as much part of our natural as well as our industrial heritage.
renovation work on the old station platform
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